Quotes About Overcoming

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

It time for me to shed all my insecurities and fears. Let them fall to the ground. It's time for me to find my voice and fly.

Was there to be some healing after all? Was healing possible when grave damage had been done? Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.

It is the human condition. No one escapes, even those who may appear to others to live charmed lives. But we all have the choice of whether to be defined by the negatives in our lives or to make of our present and future and our very selves what we want them to be.

He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Mamita! -exclamé-. ¡Yo no puedo ir en avión! -Si estás sentada en él cuando despega, no podrás evitarlo.

There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Good things can be created from bad.

She catches a weakening in herself and downs it. She will not let herself be drowned in the sea that threatens her.

Elizabeth, with great fear: I will fear nothing.

Dovunque e comunque si manifesti l'eccellenza, subito la generale mediocrità si allea e congiura per soffocarla.

Nancy Mairs writes that calamities "have a genius of their own.

You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.

The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.

such episodes are shrugged off.

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

It was hard but very strengthening to remember that I could silent my whole life long and then be dead, flat out, and never have said or done what I wanted to do, what I needed to do, because of fear of pain, fear…If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from the other side.

We learn to work when we are tired, so we can learn to work when we are afraid.

As soon as a challenge was overcome, it creased to be a challenge, becoming the expected and ordinary rather than something I had achieved with difficulty, and could, therefore, be justly proud of. I could not own my own triumphs, nor give myself credit for them.

You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.